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Yesterday night, debacle has organised the possible first Linux/Free Software ball. In effect, that meant that we got the "Aquarium" room of the hacklab, set up my laptop and some speakers and got started. I offered my help, having done a Ballroom Dancing Club in the USA before and having my collection of music with me. We started with Tango, actually playing Finish tango, I continued teaching Disco Fox and we finished with basic Rumba. There were up to 6 couples, 4 girls, and it was fun. Pictures will be uploaded later.

Also yesterday, I founded Utnubu (including an alioth project). The message to debian-project and the DebConf5 list reads as follows (as the list archives are non-working currently):

Hi everyone,

I invite everyone interested to join the Utnubu Team. Utnubu stands for
doing what Ubuntu does, just the other way around: We want to take the
things Ubuntu does and that are missing in Debian, and - where
appliciable - put them in Debian.

This should be achieved using (at least) the following methods:

Having a look at the patches that Ubuntu publishes, see if they are
suitable for Debian and then contact the Debian Maintainer to see if and
how these can be integrated.

Contacting Ubuntu developers that upload directly to universe, if
they don't want to upload to Debian, too; this includes sponsoring. Note
that I do not plan to pull developers from Ubuntu, they should instead
form their package for both distributions.

If this is not possible or feasable, take Ubuntu-only packages,
adjust them to Debian and upload them ourselves.

(Personally, I'd like to concentrate on point 2 and 3, so another reason
for you to join)

I have set up the alioth project utnubu, as well as the mailing lists
utnubu-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org for general in-group discussion,
as well as utnubu-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org for the maintainer
field of our possible packages.

A list of binary package in universe, but not in Debian, is assembled on
http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/utnubu/

Those who are at DebConf and are interested: You are welcome to see me
and discuss matters in person.

Thanks for your attention, and looking forward to working with you,
Joachim Breitner

So far the responses were positive. I started checking a few packages, you can see the results at the list achive. Help is very much appreciated.

Well, if you use Ubuntu and Debian, you probably have a good overview on what features (as in additional or modified packages) you want in Debian. If you know anything like that, tell utnubu-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org